Labor Day Tributes Across Nations Clash With Trade Fears
Labor Day events from El Paso to New York highlighted worker pride while warnings about a rising trade deficit surfaced from AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland. Reagan urged tax reform and prodded for better American product markets as Elena battered Gulf Coast states and crowds gathered coast to coast.
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Associated Press
Afl-Cio
Lane Kirkland
el Paso
Texas
Kirkland
Reagan
California
Independence
Labor and Management
National Safety Council
New York City
Fifth Avenue
New York
Mario Cuomo
Ed Koch
Gulf Coast
Yellowstone the First National Park and Its Expanding Threat
Yellowstone began as the world’s first national park in 1872 and is now described as America’s front porch and largest intact wilderness in the contiguous United States. The article warns that outside its borders industrial development, drilling, logging, and tourism threaten the park’s fragile ecosystem and native species.
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Los Angeles County
Tom Overmire
San Diego
Beverly Hills
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Paul Kantner
Marty Balin
Detroit
UAW
Owen Bieber
United Mine Workers
Richard Trumka
Michigan
James Blanchard
Mackinac Bridge
St. Ignace
Upper Peninsula
Mackinaw City
Penisula
Yellowstone National Park
Wyo
Congress
Yellowstone
America
Park
Idaho
Wyoming
Montana
Destry Jarvis
Washington, D.C
National Parks and Conservation Association
National Parks
Jarvis
Robert D. Barbee
John Col
Ter
Ferdinand V. Hayden
U.S. Geological Survey
Ulysses S. Grant
Wallace Stegner
Half Million Students Face Extended Summer Breaks
More than a half million public school pupils in four states faced extended breaks as teacher strikes loomed in Chicago and Seattle, while Philadelphia averted a walkout. Michigan saw 46,600 students affected as Pontiac and Flint districts joined strikes. Hofstra and Oakland University announced or planned actions. Philadelphia teachers planned ratification voting amid a three year pact tied to a property tax rise.
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Chicago
Seattle
Philadelphia
Michigan
Pontiac
Flint
Linden
Beecher
Pennsylvania
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Louisiana
Los Angeles
Phil Tobar
Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates
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Hempstead
N.Y
Oakland University
Rochester
Mich
Chuck Burdeen
Chicago Teachers Union
W. Wilson Goode
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
Aiken Community Hospital
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Hellalls
Aiken
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